Taurathi Arrive

Geological / environmental event

The herds of cattle that once grazed peacefully in the island of Veropia's fields were gone—not dead, but changed.

In the cataclysmic aftermath of the Apadellian Citadel’s destruction, the people of Veropia bore witness to an impossible transformation. The herds of cattle that once grazed peacefully in the island’s fields were gone—not dead, but changed.   Where beasts had once stood, now walked tall, horned beings, their eyes alight with newfound intelligence. They only knew that they had awoken, as if from a long dream, into a world that feared them.   Exile and Survival Though peaceful, the newborn race known as Taurathi, as they would later name themselves, were met with terror. The humans of Rosewind—already reeling from famine and ruin—drove them out, some even claiming they were stolen property, beasts that rightfully belonged to the ranchers. A few were captured, forced into servitude. Others fled to the wilds, forming nomadic clans in the outskirts.   For four years, they lingered on the fringes, until the Hska arrived.   The Hska’s Intervention The Hska, ever-pragmatic traders, saw the Taurathi not as monsters, but as a people wronged. They offered them sanctuary in the mountain homes and valleys of the Hska, beyond human reach. The Taurathi, with no home left in Veropia’s cursed lands, accepted.   In the years that followed, the Taurathi clans grew, their culture taking shape: